Contemporary Stage Company

 

David Burrows

Most recently, in 2005, designs for two productions of Alistair Beaton's Feelgood for the English Theatres in Vienna and Frankfurt directed by Phil Young. In 2003 he designed The Tunnel of Obsession by Ernesto Sábato for Contemporary Stage Company at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon in November, and a production of The Dinner by Leah Vitali, directed by Alkis Kritikos, which opened in February in Larnaka, Cyprus.

He has collaborated with three principal directors for the last ten years: Phil Young, Alkis Kritikos and David Graham-Young. Productions with Phil Young include: Crystal Clear (Wyndhams Theatre), Les Miroirs Brisés (French Institute), The Train Years (MOMI) Knickers (Lyric Hammersmith), Blood Brothers (Heilbronn, Germany) and Tonight: Lola Blau (Old Red Lion, Islington).

Work with Alkis Kritikos: Miss Julie (Sir Richard Steel Theatre, London), The Collector (Portlands Playhouse, London), the British première of Beckett's Rough for Theatre 1 & 2 (Theatro Technis and national tour), In Other Beasts the Best (Theatro Technis), Tartuffe (National Theatre of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1997) and The Frog and the Lion Fairy (London Greek schools tour, 1998)

David Graham-Young, director of Contemporary Stage Company (CSC), is his most recent collaborator and he's designed five productions for CSC since 2000: A Summer’s Day, Ghosts, Mr Paul, and The Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, all at the Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, and The Tunnel of Obsession at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon.

Until recently (July 2009) he was Head of the School of Theatre at Wimbledon School of Art, following his subject leadership of the Technical Arts Interpretation and Design courses (1989 – 2002). Since validation in 1989, and until 1994, he was also course leader of the UK's first MA course in Theatre Design/Scenography at Wimbledon.

A comprehensive CV, production photographs, costume designs and press reviews can be found on his website at: http://www.davidburrows.com




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